Word: necks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard's favor. Darlene Beckford '83, who runs cross country and track, received full scholarship offers from UCLA, Berkeley, and Tennessee. "The scholarships made me think twice--but in some ways I don't like that feeling of dependence. Once you accept a scholarship, they have you by the neck; if I decided for whatever reason to stop running, they'd probably take the money away so fast it wouldn't be funny," she says...
...electorate now think that Carter has been too soft in dealing with Iran and the Soviet Union. Public confidence in his handling of the economy has also slipped, and few voters expect his most recent economic program to be effective in curbing inflation. Now he runs neck and neck with Reagan as the voters' choice for their next President...
University officials are currently investigating the incident, the latest in a series of accidents involving the club. A student slipped and was paralyzed from the neck down during the Pi Eta initiation this year. At a previous initiation, another student walked through a plate glass door...
...ahead of George Bush; instead Bush won by 31%-29%. In the Maine caucuses, the Bangor Daily News had Carter ahead of Kennedy by 19 points the weekend before the voting; Carter beat Kennedy by only 6%. In New Hampshire, a Boston Globe poll put Reagan and Bush almost neck and neck the Sunday before the election; Reagan walloped Bush...
...could, by lifting his chin, raise his nostrils high enough above the mire to breathe, but it was painful, owing to his sore back-of-neck. He now greatly regretted not having killed Harry...